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Frank Clair
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Frank James Clair was a coach in the Canadian Football League, nicknamed the Professor for his ability to recognize and develop talent. Clair ranks third all-time in the CFL with 147 regular season wins and is the most successful coach in the post-season with 27 victories. He is also tied for the most Grey Cup championships won by a coach with five. As a result, he won the Annis Stukus Trophy as the CFLs coach of the year in 1966 and 1969, Clair played end for the Ohio State Buckeyes, lettering in 1938,1939, and 1940. As a receiver, he was quarterback Don Scotts favorite target, in 1941, Clair played in seven games for the Washington Redskins. Clair found his greatest success in coaching and he was the head coach at the University at Buffalo in 1948 and 1949. During the 1950s, he coached the Toronto Argonauts to two Grey Cups in 1950 and 1952, in 1956, he joined the Ottawa Rough Riders. As coach, Clair led them to Grey Cup Championships in 1960,1968 and 1969, after retiring from coaching following the 1969 season, became the teams general manager, where they won Grey Cups in 1973 and 1976. After he was let go in 1978, the team won no more Grey Cups and he was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1981. The stadium at Lansdowne Park was renamed Frank Clair Stadium in his honour on April 8,1993 and he was inducted into the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 1998. Retired, Clair lived in retirement and died in Sarasota, Florida and he was survived by his wife Patricia and daughter Robin. In 2014, the stadium was renamed TD Place, and the operators erected a statue of Clair in his honour, list of Canadian Football League head coaches by wins Frank Clair at the College Football Data Warehouse

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TD Place Stadium
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TD Place Stadium is a 24, 000-seat stadium in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is located at Lansdowne Park, on the edge of The Glebe neighbourhood. It is the home of the Ottawa Redblacks of the Canadian Football League and it was known as Frank Clair Stadium until it was renamed on January 7,2014. It has existed in form since the 1870s, and as a complete stadium since 1908. The playing field, part of the Ottawa Exposition Grounds, was first cleared in the 1870s and it was used for equestrian events, lacrosse and rugby football. The first permanent grandstand was built on the side of the playing field in 1908. It was demolished in 1967 to build a new set of stands with an ice hockey arena underneath. A small grandstand was built in the 1920s on the south-side of the field, a second deck for the south-side was added during the 1970s. As of 2008, prior to lower south-side demolition, the stadium had a 30,927 capacity for football. In the late 1990s, the stadium was threatened with demolition when then-mayor Jim Watson led a drive by the government to allow a private developer to reconfigure Lansdowne Park. The proposals submitted all called for residences to be built on the site of the football stadium. Massive public opposition and the realization that the end of the stadium would mean the end of hopes to return CFL football to the capital led the government to step in. For many years, the stadium was known as Lansdowne Park and it was renamed in 1993 to honour Frank Clair, coach and general manager for the Ottawa Rough Riders during the 1960s and 1970s. In September 2007, the south side stands were closed because of cracks in the concrete structure. After the closure of the stands, then-Ottawa mayor Larry OBrien was quoted at the time that this was an opportunity to do a review of the usage, subsequently a process was started called Design Lansdowne to get public consultations on the Park and the stadium. After an engineering study of the north-side and south-side grandstands, the stands were condemned. The lower section of the stands was demolished by controlled implosion on July 20,2008 at 8,03 am, during the summer of 2008, a consortium of investors was formed to pursue a new CFL team in Ottawa. They bid successfully and received a franchise from the CFL

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Canadian Football League East Division
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The Canadian Football League East Division is one of the two regional divisions of the Canadian Football League, their counterpart being the West Division. Although the CFL was not founded until 1958, the East Division, the first organized football club in Canada was the Hamilton Foot Ball Club, a predecessor of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, in 1868. This was followed by the formation of the Montreal Foot Ball Club in 1872, the Toronto Argonaut Football Club in 1873, the first organized competitions were formed in 1883, when the Ontario Rugby Football Union and the Quebec Rugby Football Union were founded. At the time the sport was generally called rugby union or rugby football because its rules were similar to rugby unions, the following year, the two provincial unions would form the Canadian Rugby Football Union, with Montreal winning the first national championship later that year. The CRFU collapsed before the decade was out, but was re-organized as the Canadian Rugby Union in 1891, the turn of the 20th century was marked by fundamental changes in the rules of the game. The ORFU was the first competition to adopt the Burnside Rules, the QRFU and CRU initially resisted the changes, but by 1906 the Burnside Rules were in force throughout Ontario and Quebec. Although substantial changes were still to come, modern Canadian football would ultimately evolve from John Thrift Meldrum Burnsides code, the new competition was soon dubbed the Big Four. Montreal won the first championship that year, in 1909 Lord Earl Grey, the Governor General of Canada, donated a trophy to be awarded to the CRU champion. The trophy, which known as the Grey Cup, would not be won by an IRFU club until the Hamilton Tigers captured the trophy in 1913. Following the 1915 season, the competition was suspended because of the First World War, from 1925 until 1953, IRFU teams would dominate Canadian football, winning 18 of the 26 Grey Cups its clubs contested in that timespan. During this period, the calibre of play in the IRFU was recognized as being on par with any league in North America, the Big Four attracted considerable interest in the United States and even had its games televised by the National Broadcasting Company for a time during the 1950s. This interest would decline as the National Football League gained prominence. By the mid-1950s, it was clear that the IRFU was a far higher calibre competition than the ORFU, moreover, the Western Interprovincial Football Union had been gaining strength over the last two decades, and its level of play was almost on par with that of the IRFU. The WIFUs champion had faced the Big Fours champion in the Grey Cup final every season since 1945, and it would prove capable of winning the Grey Cup on a regular basis during this decade. Following the 1954 season, the ORFU finally stopped challenging for the Grey Cup, although it would be another four years before the amateurs were formally locked out of Grey Cup play, this marks the start of the modern era of Canadian football. In 1956, the IRFU and WIFU agreed to form the Canadian Football Council, in 1958, the CFC withdrew from the CRU and renamed itself the Canadian Football League. The new league assumed control of the Grey Cup, though it had been the de facto professional championship for four years before then, the IRFU changed its name to the Eastern Football Conference in 1960. In 1961, the EFC agreed to an interlocking schedule with what was known by then as the Western Football Conference

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Ottawa Rough Riders
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The Ottawa Rough Riders were a Canadian Football League team based in Ottawa, Ontario, founded in 1876. Formerly one of the oldest and longest lived professional sports teams in North America and their most dominant era was the 1960s and 1970s, a period in which they won five Grey Cups. The teams fortunes waned in the 1980s and 1990s and they ceased operations following the 1996 season. Five years later, a new CFL team known as the Ottawa Renegades was founded, the Ottawa Redblacks, who own the Rough Riders intellectual properties, joined the league in 2014. Founded,1876 Folded,1996 Formerly known as, Ottawa Football Club 1876 to 1897, the teams colours were cerise, grey, and navy blue. The club adopted the name Ottawa Rough Riders on Friday, September 9,1898 and changed its colours to red. Since then, red and black have been Ottawas traditional sporting colours, the team changed its nickname to Ottawa Senators from 1925 to 1930. The teams had historically belonged to leagues, which were not truly merged until the late 1950s. When the CFL was formed they were allowed to keep their long-standing names, on four occasions, the two teams met in the Grey Cup. Ottawas first Canadian championship came in 1898, the Ottawa Football Club transferred from the Quebec Union to the Ontario League that season. In those days, Ottawa athletes played in sports and the Riders had athletes famous in other sports, such as Harvey Pulford. The Riders moved back to the Quebec Union, winning the 1903 Quebec championship, in 1905, Ottawa won the Quebec title, only to lose to the Toronto Varsity team 11–9 in the Canadian championship. The club absorbed the Ottawa St. Pats when the Riders helped found the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union in 1907, the Riders would win the IRFU championship in 1909 over the Hamilton Tigers, but lost in the Canadian final in Toronto to Toronto Varsity. During the decline of the Riders, another Ottawa team, Ottawa St. Brigids, was on an ascent, St. Brigids, which played in the Ottawa City league, and later the Ontario league, was developing top talent. In 1923, St. Brigids and the Riders merged, with St. Brigids manager Jim McCaffery becoming the manager of the Riders, McCaffery would be a member of the Riders executive for several decades. The team won the Grey Cup in 1925 and 1926, a time when they were known as the Ottawa Senators, in 1925, Ottawa defeated three-time defending champion Queens in the Eastern semi-final. Ottawa then defeated Winnipeg 24–1 in the championship, held in Ottawa, the team was led by top players such as Eddie Emerson, Joe Tubman, Joe Miller, Jess Ketchum, Jack Pritchard, Harold Starr and Don Young. The Riders went back into a decline after the championships, again, another Ottawa team, the Ottawa Rangers, was developing talent and enjoying success, winning the Quebec title

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Montreal Alouettes
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The Montreal Alouettes are a Canadian football team based in Montreal, Quebec. Founded in 1946, the team has folded and been revived twice, the Alouettes compete in the East Division of the Canadian Football League and last won the Grey Cup championship in 2010. Their home field is Percival Molson Memorial Stadium for the regular season, the original Alouettes team won four Grey Cups and were particularly dominant in the 1970s. After their collapse in 1982, they were immediately reconstituted under new ownership as the Montreal Concordes, after playing for four years as the Concordes, they revived the Alouettes name for the 1986 season. A second folding in 1987 led to a hiatus of CFL football in the city. The current Alouettes franchise was established in 1996 by the owners of the Baltimore Stallions, many players from the Stallions 1995 roster signed with the Alouettes and formed the core of the teams 1996 roster. The CFL considers all clubs that have played in Montreal as one franchise dating to 1946, the Alouettes had from 1996 to 2014 the CFLs longest active playoff streak, having missed the playoffs twice since returning to the league. The streak came to an end in 2015 and they have hosted a playoff game every year except 2001,2007,2013,2015 and 2016 and have never finished with fewer than six wins. Their only four losing seasons came in 2007,2013 and 2015 and 2016,2015 and 2016 marked the first time the team missed the playoffs in consecutive years since their re-activation. Major stars of the recent era include Mike Pringle, the CFL career leader in rushing yards, and quarterback Anthony Calvillo, the Alouettes are owned by American investment banker Robert Wetenhall. It is currently the only CFL team to have non-Canadian ownership, Jim Popp served as the teams general manager, his tenure with the franchise, which extended back to the Baltimore era, ended on November 7,2016. Founded, The original Montreal club was founded on April 8,1872, the original club was renamed as the Montreal Alouettes in 1946. However, the original Alouettes club ceased operations following the 1981 season and was replaced by a new team, the Montreal Concordes, the Concordes were rechristened the new Alouettes for the 1986 season, but ceased operations the day before the 1987 season was due to start. The current Montreal Alouettes franchise commenced play in 1996, uniform Colours, Blue, red, silver, white, and black Home Stadium, The Alouettes play at Percival Molson Memorial Stadium for the regular season, while they play at Olympic Stadium for playoff games. The Alouettes were first formed in 1946 by CFL hall of famer Lew Hayman along with businessmen Eric Cradock and they named themselves after Alouette, a work song about plucking the feathers from a skylark, which had become a symbol of the Québécois. They won their first Grey Cup championship in 1949, beating Calgary 28–15 led by quarterback Frank Filchock, from 1954 to 1956, they reached the Grey Cup in three straight years, but questionable defensive units led the Alouettes to defeat against the Edmonton Eskimos all three times. The team was purchased in 1954 by Ted Workman – and while the team continued to enjoy success, that all changed at the end of the 1960 season. To be more specific, the team was shaken by an announcement on November 10 – namely the trade of Hal Patterson and Sam Etcheverry to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats for Bernie Faloney, Workman had concluded the deal without consulting with general manager Perry Moss

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Hamilton Tiger-Cats
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The Hamilton Tiger-Cats are a professional Canadian football team based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, founded in 1950 with the merger of the Hamilton Tigers and the Hamilton Wildcats. They are currently members of the East Division of the Canadian Football League, the Tiger-Cats play their home games at Tim Hortons Field. Since the 1950 merger, the team has won the Grey Cup championship eight times, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats Football Club also recognizes all Grey Cups won by Hamilton-based teams as part of their history, which would bring their win total to 15. However, the CFL does not recognize these wins under one franchise, neither of these teams won a championship in the first decade of the 21st century. In their first forty years of existence, the Tiger-Cats were a franchise, qualifying for the playoffs in all. They are one of six teams in the modern era to win the Grey Cup at home and were the first to accomplish this when they did it in 1972. However, since 1990, they have missed the playoffs on eleven occasions and have won just one Grey Cup in 1999 and their lowest moment came when they lost a Canadian Football League record 17 games in one season with just one win during their 2003 season. The franchise has started to return to prominence after qualifying for the post-season in four of the past five seasons, including a loss in the 101st Grey Cup, founded,1950, a merger of the Hamilton Tigers and the Hamilton Wildcats. Formerly known as, The Hamilton Tigers and Hamilton Wildcats, the owner/caretaker of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats Football Club is businessman Bob Young, who purchased the club on October 7,2003. He was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and graduated from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and his fortune was earned in the software industry and he is currently the owner and CEO of Lulu, a self-publishing website. As of 2011, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats Executive Committee consists of three people, Bob Young, Caretaker, Scott Mitchell, President, and Doug Rye, although the current Hamilton Tiger-Cats were only founded in 1950, football in Hamilton goes back much further than that. The history of Hamilton Tiger-Cats Football Club can be traced back to November 3,1869 in a room above George Lee’s Fruit Store, the Hamilton football club played their first game on December 18,1869 against the 13th Battalion. In 1872, the Hamilton Football club began play at the Hamilton AAA Grounds, the Hamilton Tigers began play in the Ontario Rugby Football Union in 1883 and won their first Canadian Dominion Football Championship in 1906 when the Tigers beat McGill University 29–3. The Tigers continued in the ORFU until 1907, when the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union was formed, the IRFU later became known as the Big Four and eventually, the IRFU became the East division of the modern CFL in the 1950s. In the following season, the Tigers won their first of five Grey Cups when they beat the Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club by the margin of 44–2. The Alerts were refused entry into the ORFU in 1913 with many of its players opting to join the Tigers, the Alerts gave way to a team under the name Hamilton Rowing Club from 1913–1915, who also played in the ORFU. 1914 saw the amalgamation of the Hamilton Alerts and the Hamilton Tigers. In 1915, in the final season, the Hamilton Tigers won their second Grey Cup

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Toronto Argonauts
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The Toronto Argonauts are a professional Canadian football team competing in the East Division of the Canadian Football League. Based in Toronto, Ontario, the team was founded in 1873, the teams origins date back to a modified version of rugby football that emerged in North America in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The Argonauts played their games at Rogers Centre from 1989 until 2016 when the team moved to BMO Field. The Argonauts have won the Grey Cup a record 16 times and have appeared in the final 22 times, Most recently they defeated the Calgary Stampeders 35–22 at home in the 100th Grey Cup in 2012. The Argonauts hold the best winning percentage in the game and have the longest active winning streak in games in which they have appeared. The Argonauts have faced every current western CFL team at least once in the Grey Cup, the team was owned by the Argonaut Rowing Club for its first 83 years, and has been owned by a series of business interests since 1956. The Argonauts were a fixture on the Toronto sports scene for decades, in May 2015 it was announced that a consortium of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainments Larry Tanenbaum and Bell Canada would acquire the team. Given the length of history, dozens of players, coaches. Since the teams foundation in 1873, the Argonauts name has been in continuous use, the Chicago Cubs and the Atlanta Braves franchises of Major League Baseball are older, but both teams have changed their name more than once, and the Braves have also changed cities. The Argonauts also claim to be the oldest professional team in North America. The claim is debatable, as the Hamilton Tigers date to 1869, given its nautical theme, the name Argonaut was adopted by a group of amateur rowers in Toronto in 1872. The Argonaut Rowing Club, which exists today, went on to found the football club with the same name a year later. Given their roots in a squad, the team is often referred to as the boatmen. In the 19th century, the most renowned rowing teams in the world were from the University of Oxford, the Toronto rowers, many of whom had associations with the English schools, adopted uniforms incorporating the light blue of Cambridge and the dark blue of Oxford. In turn, the footballers adopted the colours and the double blue would become synonymous with the team. Blue has become the traditional colour of top-level teams in Toronto, the teams other official colour is white. Its current helmet design features an Oxford blue background, with an Oxford blue and Cambridge blue round shield inscribed with a white, for most of the teams history, the logo featured some form of a boat, often incorporating a football. The first recorded game of what would become known as Canadian football was played in Toronto on November 9,1861, the game at the time was a modified version of English rugby and it gained popularity throughout the 1860s

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Ottawa
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Ottawa is the capital city of Canada. It stands on the bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of southern Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, the two form the core of the Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area and the National Capital Region. The 2016 census reported a population of 934,243, making it the fourth-largest city in Canada, the City of Ottawa reported that the city had an estimated population of 960,754 as of December 2015. Founded in 1826 as Bytown, and incorporated as Ottawa in 1855, the city name Ottawa was chosen in reference to the Ottawa River nearby, the name of which is derived from the Algonquin Odawa, meaning to trade. The city is the most educated in Canada, and is home to a number of post-secondary, research, and cultural institutions, including the National Arts Centre, Ottawa also has the highest standard of living in the nation and low unemployment. It ranked second out of 150 worldwide in the Numbeo quality of life index 2014–2015, with the draining of the Champlain Sea around ten thousand years ago the Ottawa Valley became habitable. The area was used for wild harvesting, hunting, fishing, trade, travel. The Ottawa river valley has archaeological sites with arrow heads, pottery, the area has three major rivers that meet, making it an important trade and travel area for thousands of years. The Algonquins called the Ottawa River Kichi Sibi or Kichissippi meaning Great River or Grand River, Étienne Brûlé, the first European to travel up the Ottawa River, passed by Ottawa in 1610 on his way to the Great Lakes. Three years later, Samuel de Champlain wrote about the waterfalls of the area and about his encounters with the Algonquins, the early explorers and traders were later followed by many missionaries. The first maps of the area used the word Ottawa to name the river, philemon Wright, a New Englander, created the first settlement in the area on 7 March 1800 on the north side of the river, across from Ottawa in Hull. He, with five other families and twenty-five labourers, set about to create a community called Wrightsville. Wright pioneered the Ottawa Valley timber trade by transporting timber by river from the Ottawa Valley to Quebec City, the following year, the town would soon be named after British military engineer Colonel John By who was responsible for the entire Rideau Waterway construction project. Colonel By set up military barracks on the site of todays Parliament Hill and he also laid out the streets of the town and created two distinct neighbourhoods named Upper Town west of the canal and Lower Town east of the canal. Similar to its Upper Canada and Lower Canada namesakes, historically Upper Town was predominantly English speaking and Protestant whereas Lower Town was predominantly French, Irish, bytowns population grew to 1,000 as the Rideau Canal was being completed in 1832. In 1855 Bytown was renamed Ottawa and incorporated as a city, William Pittman Lett was installed as the first city clerk guiding it through 36 years of development. On New Years Eve 1857, Queen Victoria, as a symbolic, in reality, Prime Minister John A. Macdonald had assigned this selection process to the Executive Branch of the Government, as previous attempts to arrive at a consensus had ended in deadlock

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Ontario
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Ontario, one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada, is located in east-central Canada. It is Canadas most populous province by a margin, accounting for nearly 40 percent of all Canadians. Ontario is fourth-largest in total area when the territories of the Northwest Territories and it is home to the nations capital city, Ottawa, and the nations most populous city, Toronto. There is only about 1 km of land made up of portages including Height of Land Portage on the Minnesota border. Ontario is sometimes divided into two regions, Northern Ontario and Southern Ontario. The great majority of Ontarios population and arable land is located in the south, in contrast, the larger, northern part of Ontario is sparsely populated with cold winters and is heavily forested. The province is named after Lake Ontario, a thought to be derived from Ontarí, io, a Huron word meaning great lake, or possibly skanadario. Ontario has about 250,000 freshwater lakes, the province consists of three main geographical regions, The thinly populated Canadian Shield in the northwestern and central portions, which comprises over half the land area of Ontario. Although this area mostly does not support agriculture, it is rich in minerals and in part covered by the Central and Midwestern Canadian Shield forests, studded with lakes, Northern Ontario is subdivided into two sub-regions, Northwestern Ontario and Northeastern Ontario. The virtually unpopulated Hudson Bay Lowlands in the north and northeast, mainly swampy. Southern Ontario which is further sub-divided into four regions, Central Ontario, Eastern Ontario, Golden Horseshoe, the highest point is Ishpatina Ridge at 693 metres above sea level located in Temagami, Northeastern Ontario. In the south, elevations of over 500 m are surpassed near Collingwood, above the Blue Mountains in the Dundalk Highlands, the Carolinian forest zone covers most of the southwestern region of the province. A well-known geographic feature is Niagara Falls, part of the Niagara Escarpment, the Saint Lawrence Seaway allows navigation to and from the Atlantic Ocean as far inland as Thunder Bay in Northwestern Ontario. Northern Ontario occupies roughly 87 percent of the area of the province. Point Pelee is a peninsula of Lake Erie in southwestern Ontario that is the southernmost extent of Canadas mainland, Pelee Island and Middle Island in Lake Erie extend slightly farther. All are south of 42°N – slightly farther south than the border of California. The climate of Ontario varies by season and location, the effects of these major air masses on temperature and precipitation depend mainly on latitude, proximity to major bodies of water and to a small extent, terrain relief. In general, most of Ontarios climate is classified as humid continental, Ontario has three main climatic regions

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Labour Day Classic
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The Labour Day Classic is a particular week of the Canadian Football League schedule that is played over the Labour Day weekend. Labour Day weekend, roughly 10 weeks into the CFL season, is known for its matchups that do not change year to year. Labour Day weekend is also one of two weeks in the CFL schedule that the league plays on a Monday. Marks Work Wearhouse is the sponsor of the event as of 2014. The traditional Labour Day weekend matchups involve the Winnipeg Blue Bombers visiting the Saskatchewan Roughriders on the day before Labour Day, on Labour Day itself, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats are at home against the Toronto Argonauts, while the Edmonton Eskimos visit the Calgary Stampeders. The Montreal Alouettes face the Ottawa Redblacks to round out the weekend, the BC Lions have no Labour Day rivals and have had a bye week on Labour Day in the past. During the early 1980s, the Montreal Concordes instead played the Hamilton Tiger-Cats as their Labour Day rival instead of the Ottawa Rough Riders, while in 2011, this automatically resulted in Toronto and BC facing each other, in the 1980s, the three teams rotated each year. Ottawa and BC faced each other during the late 1980s and the first half of the 1990s, the Tiger-Cats hosting of the Labour Day Classic was in jeopardy for 2013 due to a schedule conflict at the teams home stadium. Because Ivor Wynne Stadium was demolished to make way for the new Tim Hortons Field, the University of Guelph Gryphons were playing that same day, so the Tiger-Cats could not host the game, resulting in the first time they could not host a Labour Day game since 1995. This was only the time in franchise history that the Tiger-Cats did not host a game on Labour Day. To make up for it, the Toronto at Hamilton matchup was played in the Thanksgiving Day Classic, for the 2016 contest, to avoid any further conflicts with OUA games, the CFL moved the Toronto/Hamilton matchup to prime time Labour Day evening. Some of the teams wear special third jerseys or throwback uniforms if they play at home, since the suspension of the Renegades in 2006, this has occurred every year except 2006,2008, and 2010. As the league has been increasing in popularity in recent years, slogans include Long Live the Rivalries and Watch the Team You Love Play the Team You Love to Hate. Fans of each team regularly claim their matchup to be the Labour Day Classic, the trophy is named after Harold Ballard, who owned the Tiger-Cats for much of the 1980s and owned Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment for most of that time. According to a Hamilton Spectator article,2011 marked 25 years since Montreal had battled Hamilton in this Classic at home, in previous years, Montreal has played as either the Alouettes or Concordes

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Tom Clements
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Thomas Albert Clements is an American football coach and a former CFL quarterback. He was the assistant coach of the Green Bay Packers of the NFL through the 2016 season, Clements attended Canevin Catholic High School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Clements was a letterman in both football and basketball. He was also offered a scholarship at North Carolina. He is the athlete in Canevin history to have his jersey retired. Clements was the quarterback for the Notre Dame football team from 1972 to 1974. In 1974, Clements finished fourth in the voting for the Heisman Trophy and was voted a first-team All-American, the next season, he helped to lead the team to what became the Rough Riders last Grey Cup victory. After taking a hit, a woozy Clements threw a pass to tight-end Tony Gabriel in the end zone. During his time with Ottawa, Clements shared the duties with Condredge Holloway. In 1978, their stats were comparable, except for Holloway throwing only two interceptions to 12 by Clements, Clements continued his career with the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 1979, but did not fare well, throwing only two touchdowns to 11 interceptions and being replaced by Danny Sanders. However, a trade to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats quickly rejuvenated Clements, and he led the CFL in passing yards with 2,803, in 1981, Clements returned to the Tiger-Cats and threw for 4,536 yards. He improved his numbers the next season with 4,706 yards, in 1983, Clements was traded from Hamilton to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers for long-time Blue Bomber quarterback Dieter Brock. The next year, those two teams, Hamilton and Winnipeg, faced other in the Grey Cup. Clements led the Bombers to their first Grey Cup victory since 1962, in 1986, he set a new completion percentage record with 67.5,173 out of 256. Clements finished his career with Winnipeg in 1987 and was also named the leagues Most Outstanding Player. He finished his CFL career with over 39,000 passing yards,252 passing touchdowns, in 2005, for the 75th anniversary of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Clements was selected one of the Bombers 20 all-time great players. In 1992, Clements was hired as coach for Notre Dame. After practicing law in 1996, Clements took his first NFL job, during Clements time as the quarterbacks coach with the Green Bay Packers, he has worked with starting quarterbacks, Brett Favre, Aaron Rodgers, and Matt Flynn

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Tony Gabriel
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Tony Gabriel is a former professional Canadian football pass receiver who played in the Canadian Football League from 1971 to 1981. He played for both the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and the Ottawa Rough Riders and he was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in August 1985. In 2014, he was inducted into the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, Gabriel was born in Burlington, Ontario on December 11,1948, and attended Burlington Central High School from 1962 to 1967. While at BCHS, Tony played both football and basketball and he was a member of the Junior Basketball Championship team from 1965. He was honoured in 1967, with the M. M, robinson Gold Medal for top student athlete at BCHS. Gabriel was active throughout high school playing football for the Burlington Braves under the direction of famed coach Bernie Custis. From there he attended Syracuse University from 1968–1971 where he played split-end for coach Ben Schwartzwalder, gabriels first CFL year with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in 1971, was rather mediocre, with only 20 catches for 265 yards and one touchdown. With rookie quarterback Chuck Ealey in 1972 Gabriel caught 49 passes for 733 yards and 3 scores during the season, after the 1974 season he joined the Ottawa Rough Riders. With Ottawa he had five seasons of over 1,000 yards receiving, including four seasons from 1975 to 1978. In 1976 and 1977 Gabriel led the CFL in receiving yards with 1320 and 1362 respectively, there would not be another Canadian receiver with this accomplishment until the Stampeders Dave Sapunjis in 1993. The 1976 Grey Cup game is perhaps what fans most remember of Gabriel, in 1978 he was awarded the Schenley Award for the Most Valuable Player in the CFL, becoming the first Canadian to win the prize in almost 10 years. This feat was not repeated until 2013, in his career Gabriel was chosen ten consecutive times as the EFCs all-star tight end from 1972 to 1981. As well he was named to the all star team as the tight end in 1972. The 1981 Grey Cup game saw the Rough Riders play the Edmonton Eskimos, Gabriel entered the game with a partial ligament tear in his left knee. Late in the following a questionable penalty, Gabriel left the game when his knee finally gave out. At the time, Gabriel stood at third among the all-time receivers behind only Tom Scott and this also made him first among Canadian receivers. In his 11 seasons, he caught 614 passes for 9832 yards and 69 touchdowns, final Game, set a record for a 4 T. D. game vs. In June 2016, Tony married his Syracuse University college sweetheart and former fiancée and they are residing in both Burlington, Ontario and Newport, Rhode Island

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48th Grey Cup
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The 48th Grey Cup was the Canadian Football Leagues championship game of the 1960 season on November 26,1960. Ottawa scored in the first quarter with a Gary Schreider 16-yard field goal, in the second quarter, Edmonton quarterback Jackie Parker passed to Jim Letcavits for a 63-yard touchdown. The Ottawa defender attempted to make the interception but Letcavits took the ball away from him, Ottawa replied on the next series with a 72-yard drive. On the Eskimo 32 yard line, Ottawa quarterback Russ Jackson faked a handoff, Jackson found Bill Sowalski for a touchdown. In the fourth quarter, Edmonton punt returner Joe Bob Smith fumbled on his own two yard line after being hit by Lou Bruce, Ottawas Kaye Vaughan recovered the ball as it rolled into the end zone. Parker ran back the ensuing kickoff 74 yards but Edmonton could not take advantage, fans rushed onto the field with 41 seconds left to play. The officials had to cancel the remainder of the game, Ottawa running back Ron Stewart was named the games Most Valuable Player. Edmonton had only 44 yards rushing and it was Ottawas first Grey Cup since 1951. Kaye Vaughan’s fumble recovery touchdown was his first touchdown in 14 years of football, Jackson TD pass to Sowalski Grey Cup,1960

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Ottawa Renegades
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Ottawa Renegades was the name of a Canadian Football League team based in Ottawa, Ontario founded in 2002, six years after the storied Ottawa Rough Riders folded. After four seasons, the Renegades franchise was suspended indefinitely by the due to financial instability. After two years in limbo, a new franchise was awarded to Jeff Hunt, best known as the owner of the Ottawa 67s, the new franchise was revived in 2014 as the Ottawa Redblacks. Hunt chose not to reuse the Renegades nickname or franchise history, the Ottawa Renegades returned Canadian Football League action to Canadas capital in 2002. Ottawa had been without a team since 1996, when the Ottawa Rough Riders folded, the logo chosen draws similarities to the logo used by the Rough Riders for much of their existence up until 1992. The Renegades played four seasons and never qualified for the playoffs, the teams only head coach was Joe Paopao. On November 7,2005, the Ottawa Renegades announced John Jenkins as head coach and General Manager for 2006, however, this did not occur because of the suspension of the teams operations. The organization has become known for its fan following, an informal group called Renegade Nation. On March 3,2006, Lonie Glieberman resigned from day-to-day operations of the team, on March 22,2006, Bernie Glieberman decided to stop funding the Renegades. While the CFL previously took over operations of the Toronto Argonauts and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in 2003, on April 9,2006, the CFL started looking for a new owner. The players of the Ottawa Renegades were dispersed to the remaining 8 CFL teams in a dispersal draft, steelback Brewery president Frank DAngelo announced in April 2006 that he was exploring opportunities to revive the team. The announcement was not cleared with the Canadian Football League, who indicated that they had had only one informal conversation with DAngelo, in which no decision was made. On May 15,2007, the CFL announced that it had ended discussions with a led by William Palmer regarding the return of a CFL team to Ottawa for the 2008 season. CFL Commissioner Mark Cohon stated everal parties have expressed interest regarding a franchise for Ottawa, however, in September 2007, the lower south side of Frank Clair Stadium was closed, due to cracks in the concrete structure. Ottawa mayor Larry OBrien was quoted at the time that this was an opportunity to do a review of the usage, on March 25,2008, the league ended the teams indefinite limbo by awarding the franchise to Jeff Hunt, owner of the Ottawa 67s. The team began play in 2014, and did not retain the name Renegades because of its troubled history, as of the end of the 2016 CFL season, Kyries Hebert was the last active former Renegade player still on a CFL team roster. Former Renegades Korey Banks, Kerry Joseph, Yo Murphy, Marc Parenteau, dan Crowley was the teams first starting quarterback. Throughout 2002, backup quarterbacks, Chuck Clements and Oteman Sampson, however, in 2003, Kerry Joseph, would be the quarterback to ultimately succeed Crowley

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Ottawa Redblacks
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The Ottawa Redblacks are a professional Canadian football team based in Ottawa, Ontario. The team plays in the East Division of the Canadian Football League, starting play in 2014, the Redblacks are the third CFL team to play in the city. The Ottawa Rough Riders, formed in 1876, were a member of the CFL in 1958. A new Ottawa franchise was formed as the Renegades in 2002, the Redblacks won the 2016 Grey Cup Championship, which ended a 40 year Grey Cup championship drought for the City of Ottawa. Inaugural Season,2014 Helmet design, Black background with a saw blade featuring an italicized Rough Riders-style R in the forefront, uniform colours, Red, black and white. The Ottawa Renegades abruptly ceased operations prior to the 2006 CFL season, the league liquidated the Renegades roster in a dispersal draft and placed the Ottawa CFL franchise up for sale, with the intent of eventually returning to the city. On March 25,2008, Jeff Hunt, the owner of the Ontario Hockey Leagues Ottawa 67s spearheaded a group that was awarded a franchise. The team planned to play in 2010, but cracks in the concrete structure in the south stands of Frank Clair Stadium led to the demolition of those stands. The league then set a new date of 2013 for the teams debut, the team and league then announced plans to play at a remodelled Frank Clair Stadium—now called TD Place Stadium—by 2014 if construction remained on schedule. In any event, after lawsuits and delays, the renovations were not completed until 2014. Hosting the Grey Cup is an included in the agreement of franchise ownership. A C$7-million franchise fee was reported to have paid to the CFL. Questions arose about the design in terms of whether or not it could be used by a CFL team in place of the aging Frank Clair Stadium. However, the CFL and MLS groups could not come to any agreement on coordinating their plans, furthermore, municipal officials questioned whether the city could support both CFL and MLS franchises. In April 2009, the staff of the City of Ottawa presented a report to city council on the merits of the soccer stadium, the city held public hearings based on the report, which questioned the necessity of the spending but gave a slight edge to the Lansdowne proposal. Councillors attempted to find out whether the SSE group would support sharing their stadium with a planned CFL franchise, consequently, on April 22,2009, city council chose the Lansdowne proposal over the SSE proposal as its choice for an outdoor stadium. Negotiations were conducted over the several months, leading to an August 26 presentation to council so that it could decide the fate of football in Ottawa in the foreseeable future. On November 12 and 13, council held a debate to discuss what should be done with the area at Lansdowne Park